After Apple launched the unique iPhone to nice acclaim, the most important cell phone maker of the day, Nokia, vowed to beat it at its personal sport. At first it tried to undercut the value with the formidable however imperfect Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, its first touch-driven Symbian S60 smartphone.
That didn’t work out – the 5800 had its flaws, nevertheless it did assist software program builders and customers familiarize with the brand new software program stack and interface. Symbian S60 fifth version was a model new contact UI unrelated to earlier efforts like S80 or UIQ.
With the worst points ironed out, the stage was set for the Nokia N97, or as Nokia noticed it, the telephone that will put an finish to that foolish iPhone. Nonetheless, in a heavy case of irony the N97 did extra to kill Nokia itself than it did the iPhone.
There are a lot of the reason why this telephone and its siblings failed, however the maybe the most important elements have been that customers now anticipated to obtain complicated apps from app shops. Neither the N97 nor the Ovi Retailer have been ready for that.
Right here’s Will with the most recent installment within the Flashback video sequence to elucidate simply what went flawed:
You’ve in all probability heard how this story ends. Symbian had one final hurrah with the Nokia 808 PureView, which we featured in a previous video, whereas Nokia went the Microsoft solution to attempt to reinvent each desktop and cellular Home windows for the contact future.
It did that by transplanting Windows Phone 7 into the physique of the Nokia N9 and within the course of killing off its extra promising contact OS, MeeGo. For higher or for worse the Nokia N97, Symbian, MeeGo and Home windows Cellphone are actually simply digital relics.
